[AusNOG] NBN’s $800 million Optus network might need to be rebuilt

[David Connors]

On Thu, 26 Nov 2015 at 08:42 David Hughes <david at hughes.com.au> wrote:

> From my (sometimes faulty) memory I recall a payment of similar scale in
> NBN 1.0 to Optus as compensation for decommissioning their HFC network and
> using NBN as the access network for those services.   I guess at least this
> time NBN got something out of the deal.
>

Your memory is correct. They were being paid 800ml before to decommission
and bin the HFC network. The renegotiated deal was 800ml which included the
HFC assets at no additional cost.

I don't understand the media blow up over this.

   1. Replacement of all CMTSs was a given under the HFC plan and the deal
   for that was already signed with Arris some time ago.
   2. Node splitting was a given also.

David.


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